SingleFile
This library is designed to be a dead-simple way of reading and writing your rust values to and from disk.
Usage
singlefile
provides a generic Container
type, along with type alias variants for different use cases.
Container
is named so to indicate that it contains and manages a file and a value.
// A readable, writable container
use ContainerWritable;
use ;
// Attempts to open 'my_data.json', creating it from default if it does not exist,
// expecting data that the `Json` format can decode into `MyData`
let mut my_container = create_or_default?;
// For regular `Container`s, `Deref` and `DerefMut` can be used to access the contained type
println!; // 0 (as long as the file didn't exist before)
my_container.magic_number += 1;
// Write the new state of `MyData` to disk
my_container.commit?;
We'd then expect the resulting my_data.json
to look like:
Shared and async containers
singlefile
also provides a ContainerShared
type that can be used from multiple threads, as well as
a ContainerSharedAsync
that can be used from multiple threads and spawns its operations asynchronously.
Currently, ContainerSharedAsync
can only be guaranteed to work alongside Tokio.
The shared container types can be enabled with the shared
cargo feature.
The async container types can be enabled with the shared-async
cargo feature.
// A readable, writable container with multiple-ownership
use ContainerSharedWritable;
use ;
// `ContainerShared` types may be cloned cheaply, they behave like `Arc`s
let my_container = create_or_default?;
// Get access to the contained `MyData`, increment it, and commit changes to disk
spawn;
File formats
singlefile
is serialization framework-agnostic, so you will need a FileFormat
adapter
before you are able to read and write a given file format to disk.
Here is how you'd write a Json
adapter for the above examples, using serde
.
use Serialize;
use DeserializeOwned;
use FileFormat;
use ;
;
Alternatively, you can use one of the preset file formats provided by
singlefile-formats
.
Features
By default, only the tokio-parking-lot
feature is enabled.
shared
: EnablesContainerShared
, pulling inparking_lot
.shared-async
: EnablesContainerSharedAsync
, pulling intokio
and (by default)parking_lot
.deadlock-detection
: Enablesparking_lot
'sdeadlock_detection
feature, if it is present.tokio-parking-lot
: Enablesparking_lot
for use intokio
, if it is present. Enabled by default.